8 Surprising—and Healthy—Egg Replacements

Eggs are a staple for cooking and baking. But if you’re scrambling for a replacement, your kitchen is full of dupes, from ground flaxseed to canned pumpkin. Many offer health benefits that make them comparable or even superior to actual eggs. Depending on what you’re making, eggs can contribute structure, moisture, flavor, and color, or … Read more

Seed Oils Don’t Deserve Their Bad Reputation

Rates of chronic diseases have spiked in recent decades. Over the same time period, the food supply has shifted toward more use of oils made from seeds, such as canola and soybean. Some people—U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., most prominently—have connected these developments. “Seeds oils are one of the most unhealthy ingredients we … Read more

How Realistic Is the Severance Procedure? Brain Surgeons Have Some Thoughts

Severance, the extremely popular Apple TV+ series about office workers who undergo brain surgery so that their home selves have no knowledge or memory of their working selves, and vice versa, is often described as science fiction. That’s a reasonable characterization, since the simple outpatient brain surgery that splits a person between an “innie” at … Read more